Chapter 44
Four years later—
Tom sat with Emma on the garden swing at Canterbury Downs, while three-year-old Fraser tried to tip them out of it.
Emma shook with giggles as the little boy tickled her. ‘That’s enough.’
‘Leave your mother alone.’ Tom grabbed Fraser and held him upside down, provoking peals of laughter.
‘Our guests will be here soon,’ scolded Emma. ‘Will you two behave yourselves?’
’Daddy,’ piped Fraser as Tom put him down. ‘Can I wear my nugget today? Please Daddy ... pleease?’
Tom frowned. He’d had the gold nugget made into a pendant, in memory of his brother, and had given it to Fraser. The little boy had started sleeping with it under his pillow — just as Harry had once done.
Something about that made Tom uneasy. He’d retrieved the pendant with the excuse that Fras
